van Minh Surname
Approximately 18 people bear this surname
van Minh Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Malaysia | 6 | 1:4,915,704 | 170,578 |
| Thailand | 5 | 1:14,127,669 | 603,945 |
| United States | 3 | 1:120,819,644 | 1,331,040 |
| Netherlands | 2 | 1:8,443,588 | 136,641 |
| Brazil | 1 | 1:214,074,332 | 1,693,628 |
| Germany | 1 | 1:80,505,459 | 560,955 |
van Minh (169) may also be a first name.
van Minh Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name van Minh Come From? nationality or country of origin
van Minh is held by more people in Malaysia than any other country or territory. It can be rendered in the variant forms:. Click here to see other potential spellings of this surname.
How Common Is The Last Name van Minh? popularity and diffusion
This surname is the 4,649,889th most frequent surname globally. It is borne by approximately 1 in 404,863,662 people. The surname van Minh is mostly found in Asia, where 61 percent of van Minh live; 61 percent live in Southeast Asia and 33 percent live in Malayo-Arabic Southeast Asia. It is also the 703,581st most frequently occurring first name at a global level It is held by 169 people.
It is most prevalent in Malaysia, where it is held by 6 people, or 1 in 4,915,704. In Malaysia van Minh is most numerous in: Kuala Lumpur, where 67 percent are found and Johor, where 33 percent are found. Besides Malaysia this last name is found in 5 countries. It also occurs in Thailand, where 28 percent are found and The United States, where 17 percent are found.
Phonetically Similar Names
| Surname | Similarity | Worldwide Incidence | Prevalency |
|---|---|---|---|
| Van-Minh | 88 | 1 | / |
| van Main | 88 | 0 | / |
| van Mines | 82 | 1 | / |
| van Mieny | 82 | 1 | / |
| van Meines | 78 | 29 | / |
| van Michem | 78 | 8 | / |
| van Mean | 75 | 1 | / |
| van Meene | 71 | 48 | / |
| van Muysen | 67 | 79 | / |
| van Meesen | 67 | 26 | / |
| van Messen | 67 | 7 | / |
| von Menge | 59 | 11 | / |
| von Menes | 59 | 1 | / |
| van Messem | 56 | 102 | / |
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Footnotes
- Surnames are taken as the first part of an person's inherited family name, caste, clan name or in some cases patronymic
- Name distribution statistics are generated from a global database of over 4 billion people - more information
- Heatmap: Dark red means there is a higher occurrence of the name, transitioning to light yellow signifies a progressively lower occurrence. Clicking on selected countries will show mapping at a regional level
- Rank: Name are ranked by incidence using the ordinal ranking method; the name that occurs the most is assigned a rank of 1; name that occur less frequently receive an incremented rank; if two or more name occur the same number of times they are assigned the same rank and successive rank is incremented by the total preceeding names
- Ethnic group cannot necessarily be determined by geographic occurrence
- Similar: Names listed in the "Similar" section are phonetically similar and may not have any relation to van Minh
- To find out more about this surname's family history, lookup records on FamilySearch, MyHeritage, FindMyPast and Ancestry. Further information may be obtained by DNA analysis